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Slopes iOS app gets major update with live, interactive ski maps for 200 resorts

Slopes interactive ski maps

Apple Design Award-winning ski and ride tracking app Slopes is out today with a big update – interactive maps available for more than 200 resorts around the world. The functionality brings live tracking for where you and your friends are with lift and run details overlayed on-screen, plus you can see exactly where you’ve been.

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Carrot Weather gets mini-games, Live Activities support for all precipitation, Layout redesign, more

Carrot Weather mini-games and more

Following up after launching support for Live Activities on the Lock Screen and the iPhone 14 Pro’s Dynamic Island, Carrot Weather has received its latest update today. The release includes a new mini-games experience, a major update to the Layout screen, Live Activities support for all precipitation, and more.

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Pok Pok Playroom Connect The Dots

Pok Pok Playroom immersive iOS app for kids gets new ‘Connect The Dots’ toy

Continuing on after great updates like a music SequencerMarble MachineSpace, and Halloween content, Pok Pok Playroom for kids has received another new release. “Connect The Dots” offers fun open-ended play while encouraging growth with creative thinking, curiosity, fine motor skills, spatial awareness, problem-solving, and more.

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Affinity V2 launches with universal one-time purchase, redesigned UI with hundreds of new features and changes

Affinity V2 for desktop and iPad

Developer Serif teased a major overhaul for its Affinity creative suite last week and today V2 of the software is officially available. Arriving with a totally redesigned UI with “hundreds of performance enhancements and workflow improvements,” Affinity V2 aims to be “everything you want in a creative suite.”

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Affinity teases major update set to bring ‘everything you want in a creative suite’

Serif, makers of the popular Affinity creative suite has shared that it has “something big” coming on November 9. What it’s calling “the next level creative experience” is set to see the Affinity apps redesigned and refined with hundreds of enhancements and “incredible new features” including something Affinity customers have been asking for.

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Flighty update adds Live Activity to track your current flight status, including Dynamic Island integration on iPhone 14 Pro

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After first being previewed as part of the iPhone event back in September, flight tracking app Flighty is now rolling out comprehensive Live Activities and Dynamic Island support alongside the launch of iOS 16.1.

When using Flighty, a live activity for your upcoming flight automatically begins three hours before departure. This means you can easily follow along with your flight status, including delays and gate changes, from the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island on iPhone 14 Pro.

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Pok Pok Halloween update

Pok Pok Playroom iOS app for kids gets in the Halloween spirit

Following the launch of updates like a music SequencerMarble Machine, and Space content, Pok Pok Playroom for kids has received another new release. Many of the app’s toys have new Halloween content that offers fun open-ended play while encouraging growth with imagination, curiosity, storytelling, fine motor skills, cause and effect, and more.

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DuckDuckGo for Mac moves to public beta with cookie pop-up handling, ‘Duck Player,’ more

DuckDuckGo Mac public beta

Privacy-focused DuckDuckGo is out with the latest iteration of its browser in testing. The dedicated Mac app has left the private beta stage and moved into a free public beta. Joining automatic pop-up protection and defense against third-party trackers, the open beta gets a way to more privately play YouTube in-browser called Duck Player, automatic cookie consent pop-up handling, and more.

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Firefox launches its new ‘View’ feature, wallpapers, and shortcut buttons

Firefox 2021 MacBook Pro 120Hz refresh rate

Mozilla is out with a notable update for its Firefox browser today. Building on its focus of privacy and customization, the new release comes with the new Firefox View feature that lets users see up to 25 of their most recently closed tabs plus three active tabs on other devices. It also comes with new shortcut buttons for private mode, a PDF editor, text recognition, and fresh wallpapers.

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Hands-on: Overlook Weather is a beautiful and simple free app with delightful UI and widgets

Overlook Weather

A new weather app recently launched with a dynamic diorama UI that offers a simple and wonderful experience. Notably, Overlook Weather features fantastic Home and Lock Screen widgets, is free with no ads and no in-app purchases, and doesn’t collect any user data. Read on for a closer look at this sharp weather app.

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Spark mail gets major productivity update with new Home Screen, Smart Inbox, email blocking, more

Spark mail major update

Readdle is out with a major update for its popular Spark email client today. The release brings a slew of updates and fresh features like a new Home Screen, Smart Inbox, Priority Email, Set Aside feature, Command Center, “Gatekeeper” email blocking, and much more. And for the first time, Spark is expanding beyond Mac, iOS, and Android and is now available on Windows.

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Pok Pok Playroom Space update

Award-winning Pok Pok Playroom iOS app for kids gets ‘Space’ update for Busy Book toy

Following the launch of great new additions this year like a music SequencerShops toy, and Marble Machine, Pok Pok Playroom for kids has received another major update today. The Busy Book toy now has a new Space section that offers fun open-ended play while encouraging growth with imagination, curiosity, problem-solving, cause and effect, storytelling, and much more.

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